Chart of the Week
The US FAST grid has bloated to 1,604 active channels. Unscripted TV dominates with 550 feeds, while single-IP channels increasingly contribute to EPG clutter. Explore our interactive Chart of the Month to uncover exact genre saturation and preview the new Advertiser Attractiveness score.
FASTMaster on FAST
FAST ad-fill rates are no longer a mystery. My audit of five major platforms reveals a highly functional marketplace (84%+ fill), but massive divergence in monetization strategy. While Pluto and Roku achieved flawless 100% fill, Prime Video suffered high pod failure with a dismal 33% rate.
Media Strategy
Gen Z doesn't have a fried attention span; their brains simply demand multi-layered sensory stimulation. From Sludge Content and Lore Dumps to Reacts and Fancams, discover the six hyper-kinetic video formats dominating youth watch time and learn how legacy media can weaponize them to win back CTV.
Media Strategy
The 30-second trailer is dead. Audiences don't want to watch your commercial; they want to play it. Summer Walker's "No Wac-Man" web game proves gamification is the future of entertainment marketing. It captures first-party data and kills ad-skipping. Here is the playbook to build your own.
Media Strategy
The Paramount-WBD and TikTok integration kills the traditional marketing playbook. To win Gen Z, studios must stop buying trailers and start weaponizing their 15,000-title vault through Sludge, Lore, and React formats. Here is the $100M blueprint for cultural immortality.
Media Strategy
In 2020, I mapped the Viewniverse and warned that porting linear habits to streaming would fail. Six years later, the data proves it: premium FAST is a reality, ad-free utopias are dead, and broadcast is just a funnel. Here is the scorecard, and the survival playbook for Bundle 2.0 in 2026.
Media Strategy
Why don't we have a 'Nielsen of FAST'? Because the industry is lying to itself. I break down the definitional crisis inflating FAST projections by billions, and analyze the three options—from Playout Vendors to a Buy-Side Mandate—that could finally solve the measurement puzzle.
Navigate the structural evolution of media. Get deep, data-driven analysis on streaming ad economics, audience psychology, and interactive formats.
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